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government agencies which some people out into the field. you tend to have this super response to certain situations where you have the fortress and people can't really get in and out. it want to ask them what they're doing their verses transitional installations. when i first got seven big, the unisys liaison officer was not an embassy. we were living in a hotel. the state department does not tend to cope with those situations as well as they might, and i think that was part of wine secretary clinton came forward and said that basically she is taking responsibility for that. and there will be investigations of people will look into how to better protect, you know, make the bureaucracy work better to protect u.s. diplomats but everyone has to say, against that, if you look at the record of how many foreign service officers have been killed the line of duty or ambassadors, it's very few, so we must be doing a very good job in many instances, but there seems to be certain types of situations which are more prone to death breakdown. when i was
government agencies which some people out into the field. you tend to have this super response to certain situations where you have the fortress and people can't really get in and out. it want to ask them what they're doing their verses transitional installations. when i first got seven big, the unisys liaison officer was not an embassy. we were living in a hotel. the state department does not tend to cope with those situations as well as they might, and i think that was part of wine secretary...
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there's been governments in persian speaking on the plateau going back. it's on the caspian and of the gulf of the greater of middle east. it has central asia on one hand. this regime may have trouble yet transform itself and it may be overthrown but there will always be iran. saudi arabia is more tenuous. it's the creation of a family. it's not synonymous with of the arabian peninsula. there are -- they've always had trouble keeping them in line being more cosmopolitan, so you know, in iran is very strongly institutionalized. it's not a one-man -- it has different centers of power that or against each other and a complex bureaucratic border. again the gift of the iranian plateau and the. i would say that our brand strategy has to be that the u.s. has been estranged for the third of the century between 48 and 72. at some point and this is what they think about there has to be the u.s.. does all of iran support the nuclear program but it's unclear all of iran supports nuclear weapons, you know, there's a distinction so the critical factor is what do we nee
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but i would blame the government most of all for that initial reaction. >> thank you. yes. >> yes, personally don't think we should have gone the middle east in a war for any reason, but bush had to have his war. the russians failed, the british failed. don't you think we started all these clans and these factions -- haven't we stirred them up by starting these things we did? can you comment on that? >> comment on how we can -- >> well, not on -- well, you kind of tried to say what we could do, but didn't we serve all this stuff up anyway going into iraq? >> oh, yes, yes. >> the clans, the factions. if the british couldn't do it and the -- what made us think we could do anything? >> you know, it's -- everyone thinks they can do it better. everyone thinks they have the right answer because they have history as a guide, and often times it's proven to be a mistake. that those forces that made it so difficult for the british and the french have also made it difficult for the americans and the russians, and so forth, and i remember during self episodes of u.s. direct involv
but i would blame the government most of all for that initial reaction. >> thank you. yes. >> yes, personally don't think we should have gone the middle east in a war for any reason, but bush had to have his war. the russians failed, the british failed. don't you think we started all these clans and these factions -- haven't we stirred them up by starting these things we did? can you comment on that? >> comment on how we can -- >> well, not on -- well, you kind of tried...
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that doesn't come from government. that comes from what the opportunity, with the problem, how do we solve it? this way steve jobs touched such a chord when he died late last year is precisely people sense. this is living by james had hoped 10 but anyone which the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. no government can do that. >> host: you write and "freedom manifesto" but the foremost concerned is with its own bureaucratic interest. >> guest: the british historian observes something when he was writing about the british navy did after world war i, britain had won that war, don't say sharply the navy, capital ships, sailors and the like. however, the government agency running the navy increased in size. so he came with parkinson's law and that his organization said expand, the amount of work they have to do and have nothing to do with their size beard if you let them expand their will. on the case of government any other organizations left alone will fall into this, lucite but why they were created
that doesn't come from government. that comes from what the opportunity, with the problem, how do we solve it? this way steve jobs touched such a chord when he died late last year is precisely people sense. this is living by james had hoped 10 but anyone which the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. no government can do that. >> host: you write and "freedom manifesto" but the foremost concerned is with its own bureaucratic interest. >> guest: the...
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. >> host: government bullies, the second book by senator rand paul, how everyday americans are being harassed, abused and imprisoned by the feds. >> with just days left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these titles were included in kirkus book reviews best nonfiction of 2012. in haiti, "the aftershocks of history," law represent pew boy examines haiti's history. david talbot presents a history of san francisco in the 1970s in "season of the witch: enchantment, terror and deliverance in the city of love." in "quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking," author susan cain examines the benefits of an introverted personality. david drayly looks at 1862 and the actions of abraham lincoln in "rise to greatness: abraham lincoln's most perilous year." and in "full body burden: growing up in the nuclear shadow of rocky flats," kristin iverson investigates the nuclear weapons plant that was located near her childhood home. for an extended li
. >> host: government bullies, the second book by senator rand paul, how everyday americans are being harassed, abused and imprisoned by the feds. >> with just days left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these titles were included in kirkus book reviews best nonfiction of 2012. in haiti, "the aftershocks of history," law represent pew boy...
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most governments wouldn't but here is a government that can't control its own territory. as a final comment i would point out the rebels in syriac include some excellent human beings and also include some elements that are just as bad as those who attacked us in benghazi, and we should be careful that just because he is a bad guy doesn't mean that all of his enemies are good ppi would yield back. >> thank you very much to mr. sherman. mr. rohrabacher the chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations is recognized. >> .. that can be reprioritized and i'm waiting for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to address the chairman suggestion if we are spending a million dollars on global warming in this budget, wouldn't it be better for all of us, and more faithful to those serving us to allocate those funds for security if we think there's a security problem rather than for global warming which is not necessarily the purview of the state department? but in terms of, and remember that secretary lamb, assistant secretary lamb stated emphatically because it
most governments wouldn't but here is a government that can't control its own territory. as a final comment i would point out the rebels in syriac include some excellent human beings and also include some elements that are just as bad as those who attacked us in benghazi, and we should be careful that just because he is a bad guy doesn't mean that all of his enemies are good ppi would yield back. >> thank you very much to mr. sherman. mr. rohrabacher the chairman of the subcommittee on...
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as a nonprofit kind of cooperative effort with the government and with institutions of governance which levers are throughout the country. and so there is a lot of cooperative effort to that does take place. a lot of visuals that come to mind. my favored example is from a. [indiscernible] who wrote reading. she would say, can you name and american presidents of the 19th century? and very few could. one are to my say, was it lincoln? to and then she says, can you name an american literary figure all hands raise. mark twain. who is the bigger impact? a literary figure a political figure? very interesting. we think politics is a society. really literature is the powerful driving circumstance. >> the institution was not mentioned. always assisted putting advertising in random house books. whether it be for pharmaceuticals. you take something like ian fleming's novel, james bond everybody, how does james bond drive to make the aston martin. of course. the aston martin. .. the mint used bookstores. there was in fact things which offended many riders and there is a no add clause you might reca
as a nonprofit kind of cooperative effort with the government and with institutions of governance which levers are throughout the country. and so there is a lot of cooperative effort to that does take place. a lot of visuals that come to mind. my favored example is from a. [indiscernible] who wrote reading. she would say, can you name and american presidents of the 19th century? and very few could. one are to my say, was it lincoln? to and then she says, can you name an american literary figure...
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has gotten out of control, government's run amok, and government's become a bully. and someone's got to stand up to a bully. >> host: november 2012, postelection, what did the 2012 elections clarify for you? >> guest: boy, that we as republicans need to do something to grow as a party. we're in danger of becoming a dinosaur if we don't figure out what people want out on the west coast, new england, around the great lakes. they're solid blue. until we figure out what people want, we're not going to win again as a party. >> host: what do you think they want? >> guest: i think they are conservative, they think we should balance our budget, but i also think they don't think we should be at war everywhere all the time. i think they want a little more tolerant policy as far as putting people in prison for possession of marijuana. i think they'd like to see more local judges take care of that, less prison time. i'm not in favor of encouraging people to use marijuana, but i also don't think we should be putting people in jail for it either. >> host: now, this is your second
has gotten out of control, government's run amok, and government's become a bully. and someone's got to stand up to a bully. >> host: november 2012, postelection, what did the 2012 elections clarify for you? >> guest: boy, that we as republicans need to do something to grow as a party. we're in danger of becoming a dinosaur if we don't figure out what people want out on the west coast, new england, around the great lakes. they're solid blue. until we figure out what people want,...
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he said only -- those that on the contrary to government. the origins of this kind of a monopoly capitalism go back right to the very beginning of the country. >> the system does some of its sharpest analysts and critics have always understood, is full of contradictions. it is important that i be understood not to be arguing because i don't believe it. this is a system, for example, the likes to call one-dimensional. somehow solve its problems and presented a united face that cannot be overcome, that cannot be tracked at the system, not so well defended that any hope of changing it is delusional. and a bully the for one minute. this is as simple of all kinds of problems that it cannot solve , and it is patently obvious. i already mentioned one. it does not want these crises. these are kinds of trouble. in times of crisis people are asking questions which gives opportunity for people like me to offer unusual answers. this is not useful. it's very important. another example. the worst conceivable thing from the republican party and george bush
he said only -- those that on the contrary to government. the origins of this kind of a monopoly capitalism go back right to the very beginning of the country. >> the system does some of its sharpest analysts and critics have always understood, is full of contradictions. it is important that i be understood not to be arguing because i don't believe it. this is a system, for example, the likes to call one-dimensional. somehow solve its problems and presented a united face that cannot be...
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government exists now and people no know government and the necessarily like it. in particular, americans or canadians are think about the olympics and the british choosing not as a symbol that was good good about britain. all for you to another book that is a great book called the submerged state. it's by woman called to send that letter was a political scientist at cornell. it's really interest them because what she argues is there is kind of this bipartisan deal since the reagan era to kind of hide funding of state services. in the way it worked was the only way democrats could get state services funded to get it through congress list by farming it out, by having nonstate bodies deliver the assistance, that kind of thing. and the result, suzanne said his americans -- americans don't actually recognize when the government is doing good things for them. [inaudible] >> this kind of reason to my question, but enough to cover, but the attitude towards the plutocrats in europe, one would assume they're used to heavy taxes. but to the extent that she looked she looked
government exists now and people no know government and the necessarily like it. in particular, americans or canadians are think about the olympics and the british choosing not as a symbol that was good good about britain. all for you to another book that is a great book called the submerged state. it's by woman called to send that letter was a political scientist at cornell. it's really interest them because what she argues is there is kind of this bipartisan deal since the reagan era to kind...
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role how do you see the government in health care? >> government is the source of most of our problems in health care. one thing we want to do is take all the government subsidies of health insurance and give each of us the same amount of money so it'll be 2500 hours for an adult, $8000 for a family. that is your tax subsidy. you can spend additional money that that's after taxes and treat everybody the same. >> what do you mean? >> right now we don't. right now you can next subsidy if your provider -- employer provides you with a plan. under obamacare those inequities are even worse so step one would be to treat everybody the same. when you buy insurance, no matter who you are no matter where you edit you should be the same -- at the same a lot of help from government. >> what about insurance companies? what is the role in reforming the health care system? >> right now they're just big bureaucracies that they need to be variety to. you want to insure against preexisting conditions. you do that when you buy life insurance. do buy life
role how do you see the government in health care? >> government is the source of most of our problems in health care. one thing we want to do is take all the government subsidies of health insurance and give each of us the same amount of money so it'll be 2500 hours for an adult, $8000 for a family. that is your tax subsidy. you can spend additional money that that's after taxes and treat everybody the same. >> what do you mean? >> right now we don't. right now you can next...
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three big government expenditure programs are about 45% of government expenditures. those are growing. in 2010 medicare and medicaid combined spent more than social security. social security is a $750 billion program. it's growing. health care, medicare, medicaid, it's growing. if we don't do something to rein those programs back in and change the incentive structures to get more pro-market, growth-oriented policies in place, we are going to hit a fiscal cliff not at the end of in this year. we're lucky right now that our interest rates are so low. it's not because people love to come here, it's because we're not the ugliest person at the beauty pageant. they tonight want to put their money in greece, spain or portugal, so they're putting it here. our interest rates are so low. that's not going to last forever. be you go back up to a long-term average of 6-8%, we add a trillion dollars in debt service and cost interests over ten years. the interest alone will swallow up half of our federal expenditures. we'll be paying china for their military. we can't allow this to
three big government expenditure programs are about 45% of government expenditures. those are growing. in 2010 medicare and medicaid combined spent more than social security. social security is a $750 billion program. it's growing. health care, medicare, medicaid, it's growing. if we don't do something to rein those programs back in and change the incentive structures to get more pro-market, growth-oriented policies in place, we are going to hit a fiscal cliff not at the end of in this year....
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>> from his own government. a government had now changed. he was under orders from the vichy government, which was -- >> german controlled. >> yeah, friendly to the germans. but there was, it was more than orders. because if gensoul had said okay, i like the british in this war, we want to fight the nazis, and given to the ships over to the british fleet, that would've violated the agreement between the french and the germans, and then hitler would've said you violated the agreement, now i can do anything i want. and he had a million and a half drenched prisoners of war. he could've made slaves out of all of them. he could've dismantled factories in france. so gensoul was in a very, very tough place. he radioed his own admiralty and said what can i do? they said, we will send reinforcements from france, stall for time. those messages were interrupted, or intercepted by the british and decoded. so churchill knew what was going on. sommerville kept telling him, i have deadlines, i have deadlines community tell me what you're going to do. genso
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meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late december, refusing to redeem paper money. meanwhile, rebel soldiers menace washington from nearby manassas virginia where they had routed the union army a few months earlier. confederate artillery they atomic river above and below the n. no one in civilian authority, not even lincoln, had any detailed knowledge of the plans being prepared by the union's top general, george p. mcclellan. he was in secrecy assisted by a small clique of generals who shared his views of lincoln's policies. they were opposed. worse, mcclellan was rumored to be dying. with his plans die with him? under these circumstances, for the first an
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circuit jurisprudence has been remarkably pro-government on the devonshire site, remarkably pro-government on the protection of the information side, and to my knowledge there is no allegation, not one, that any protective information, sensitive information has gotten out in the habeas cases of that the litigation since the in the d.c. district court has, in fact, impactive u.s. military operations in iran the world. i just want to suggest, of those myths are mythical then, in fact, today's decision only further causes a problem and actually make up the wrong way when it comes to, should future attention be subject to judicial review, and i'll stop there. >> perfect. >> well, and i want to start up by thinking harvey and stored in bernie for putting this project together. these are issues that are worthy of a good debate and consideration, and this is a great format in which to really ts at the a true test of what is going on. i want to take a step back before i get down and talk a little bit more about the broader point that i think steven has written. the underlying notion that the d
circuit jurisprudence has been remarkably pro-government on the devonshire site, remarkably pro-government on the protection of the information side, and to my knowledge there is no allegation, not one, that any protective information, sensitive information has gotten out in the habeas cases of that the litigation since the in the d.c. district court has, in fact, impactive u.s. military operations in iran the world. i just want to suggest, of those myths are mythical then, in fact, today's...
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but ultimately, the government decided not to pursue those cases as criminal cases. unfortunately that page has turned. in what is a very unsatisfactory turn of events. >> host: we have charles from la jolla, california. >> caller: thank you, neil barofsky. it was a wonderful book. it was very compelling. my question is, in an interview with president obama, he talks about situation and you have companies like aig that after the little differently. companies like goldman sachs that were in investment banking. could you explain more about that? i know you have gained a lot of financial education since he started as the t.a.r.p. general. could you explain how this will work? >> yes, glass-steagall was the law that separated investment banks and commercial banks. so it meant that basically a big like citibank or jpmorgan chase could not also do investment banking activities. also in other areas like insurance. that bill really got dismantled by a series of regulatory deficiencies by the feds leading up to the end of the clinton administration for the last messages were
but ultimately, the government decided not to pursue those cases as criminal cases. unfortunately that page has turned. in what is a very unsatisfactory turn of events. >> host: we have charles from la jolla, california. >> caller: thank you, neil barofsky. it was a wonderful book. it was very compelling. my question is, in an interview with president obama, he talks about situation and you have companies like aig that after the little differently. companies like goldman sachs that...
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that is to say, each should know beforehand the duty of a citizen in the free government, that he must defend his country against foreign as well as internal enemies, to have good and human hearts, sensible to the sufferings of others. each one must be married and have 100 acres of land with instruments, cattle for tillage and not to manage and govern as well as well as how to behave with neighbors, always with kindness and ready to help them. themselves frugal so their children get good education. i mean as to the heart and a duty to their country. and he had only one request to name the people expected to free. and gratitude to me to make themselves as happy as possible. it never happened. and i will stop there and i'll be happy to take any questions if anyone has them. [applause] >> it is, of course, a terrible thing that slavery was done making profit. but in the book you seem to be suggesting something much more nefarious, that he's consciously looking to engage in slave trading. when i saw that there was a little counterintuitive, because jeffersons not generally regarded as a go
that is to say, each should know beforehand the duty of a citizen in the free government, that he must defend his country against foreign as well as internal enemies, to have good and human hearts, sensible to the sufferings of others. each one must be married and have 100 acres of land with instruments, cattle for tillage and not to manage and govern as well as well as how to behave with neighbors, always with kindness and ready to help them. themselves frugal so their children get good...
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to be ready to take over if the castro government fell. so, yes, he's involved in the planning to that degree, but i'm quite sure that eisenhower never would have given his permission to the bay of pigs plan as it was carried out because kennedy, thinking he could have limited wars and be modified about it, removed the air cover of the operation, which ike never would have done, and moved the landing location making it harder for them to go guerrilla as they say, and very interestingly, after the bay of pigs failed, president kennedy called ex-president eisenhower and asked to meet at camp david. kennedy was totally distraught. he wept the morning of the failure of the bay of pigs. this is a day later, and eisenhower starts questioning president kennedy how did you talk to the joint chiefs? how did you talk to the military? did you quiz them? did you make sure they were in the same room? it becomes clear that kennedy didn't really question the regimes, and he was unable to hear what i think was a secret dog whistle which goes like this. th
to be ready to take over if the castro government fell. so, yes, he's involved in the planning to that degree, but i'm quite sure that eisenhower never would have given his permission to the bay of pigs plan as it was carried out because kennedy, thinking he could have limited wars and be modified about it, removed the air cover of the operation, which ike never would have done, and moved the landing location making it harder for them to go guerrilla as they say, and very interestingly, after...
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where i will mispick with government -- nitpick with government regulators, i sometimes think they are a little too cautious. we haven't gotten approval on e-cigarettes and they should be healthier than regular cigarettes and they're dragging their feet. on real clear science we like to link to the best science news, the best science analysis. and that is, that's what we do. and so we try to put aside the partisan bickering and focus on what is good science and what is good science policy. so read major science journals, read the ab abstracts, those are good things to look at. and, you know, when you look at a position like gmos, which side do you trust? the american medical association, the national academy of sciences, the world health organization among many others, or do you trust peta ask and the environmental work withing group, groups that are for the most part anti-gmo and anti-technology. always look which groups side with the technology. genetically-modified foods. so my final thoughts, i'm not into keep l scores essentially. my book is not a response to chris mooney's book.
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self-government was only going to work in jefferson's mind if the people who were governing themselves knew themselves, cared about each other -- because why would you sacrifice for someone with whom you had no common interest, and you would find that your individual rights, your individual being had come from nature or from god and, therefore, could not be taken away by the hand of a king or the hands of a mob. and this is the moment he defines, he embodies. it's a remarkable moment. it was blissed to be alive in that very hour, humanly important. so here you have jefferson who can kill a fly when he needs to and can think in the most fundamental, far-reaching ways when he needs to. one hell of a combination. one hell of a combination. what i wanted to do in revisiting jefferson, obviously, was try to restore him to his context as a politician. partly because i think politics gets too bad a rap these days. it may deserve a semi-bad rap. i don't want to be overly optimistic about this. but we don't really have any other way to govern ourselves, and until we find something and we haven'
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he controlled government spending and package. his famous speech warning against military-industrial complex came at the end of his presidency but, in fact, he been working on it all a long. mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, that we'll get a president who knows less about the military than i do. this approach to the military was not just about the economy. in the berlin crisis in 58-59 and in early crisis with korea and vietnam in 1953, 54, the almost straight, the suez crisis in 1956, eisenhower was playing a bigger game for higher stakes. a west point cadet and a young army officer, ike had been a great poker player. indeed, he was so good that he had to give it up. he was taking too much money from his fellow officers and it was hurting his career. he switched to bridge, but he never forgot how to block it with the soviets he bluffed with nuclear weapons. as only a real warrior can, ike hated war. seriously, the great war hero had never been in combat. in world war i had been stateside training troops t
he controlled government spending and package. his famous speech warning against military-industrial complex came at the end of his presidency but, in fact, he been working on it all a long. mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, that we'll get a president who knows less about the military than i do. this approach to the military was not just about the economy. in the berlin crisis in 58-59 and in early crisis with korea and vietnam in 1953, 54, the almost straight, the suez...
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in fact, the government is one of level three's major customers. but what they're doing is, essentially, they're allowing the internet to be global. they're the ones tar making the long distance connections and are the kind of base layer that then allows all of the other sort of more familiar network names that we might know, the facebooks and the googles, to ride on top of that. >> host: so, andrew blum, if somebody here in washington sent an e-mail to somebody in kenya, where -- how does that track? how does that track? >> guest: yeah. you could be -- well, it's interesting. if you asked that question two years ago, the answer would be different. today, only recently now does kenya have good, direct physical connections to the internet rather than relying on satellite transmissions. so you can be -- i can m almost guarantee you that an e-mail from washington to kenya would go through a building in ashburn, virginia, owned by a company called ec by new york stock exchange. then you could be 80% sure it would go through 60 hudson street here in low
in fact, the government is one of level three's major customers. but what they're doing is, essentially, they're allowing the internet to be global. they're the ones tar making the long distance connections and are the kind of base layer that then allows all of the other sort of more familiar network names that we might know, the facebooks and the googles, to ride on top of that. >> host: so, andrew blum, if somebody here in washington sent an e-mail to somebody in kenya, where -- how...
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it could be a large government organization and the government is level 3 major customer about what they are doing is essentially, they are the ones who are allowing the internet to the global. they're the ones making a long-distance the long-distance connections and they're the base layer that allows all of the other more familiar network names that everybody knows, the facebook's in the googles to write on top of that. >> host: andrew blum, if someone is here in washington and send an e-mail to somebody in kenya, how does that get tracked? >> guest: you could be -- though it's interesting. if you asked that question two years ago the answer would be different. today only recently now, does kenya have good direct physical connections to the internet rather than relying on satellite transmission. i cannot most guarantee that from washington to kenya, would go through in building in ashburn virginia through building called equinox. i could be 80% sure it would then go through six and lower manhattan which is one of the major nodes, the international airport so to speak for the transatlant
it could be a large government organization and the government is level 3 major customer about what they are doing is essentially, they are the ones who are allowing the internet to the global. they're the ones making a long-distance the long-distance connections and they're the base layer that allows all of the other more familiar network names that everybody knows, the facebook's in the googles to write on top of that. >> host: andrew blum, if someone is here in washington and send an...
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why more freedom if you have two governments? now, many students of federalism as being a brilliant administrative device, this was the biggest landmass since the roman empire to attempt anything like government, and it took, what, six weeks to get from new england to south carolina. so if you're a business person, an astute manager, you have territorial divisions, in a certain sense. in the '60s and '70s when european states persons and scholars were looking at american federalism to see if they could find some lessons for the european union, many of them thought of the american federal system as being an administrative, a device of administrative convenience. and in a sense it was but that's not the whole reason for two governments. the theory of federalism, the genius of federalism is that it's wrong, as an ethical matter, wrong as a moral matter for you to delegate so much power over your own life to a remote central authority that you could no longer plan your own destiny and the destiny of your children. that's the moral an
why more freedom if you have two governments? now, many students of federalism as being a brilliant administrative device, this was the biggest landmass since the roman empire to attempt anything like government, and it took, what, six weeks to get from new england to south carolina. so if you're a business person, an astute manager, you have territorial divisions, in a certain sense. in the '60s and '70s when european states persons and scholars were looking at american federalism to see if...
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and that was that the canadian government was great. they supported as much booze as possible as long as the ship was in excess tests before they've subsisted in the united states. joseph kennedy limited from vancouver refuse to pay the excise tax. people say there's the proof. there's a smoking gun. i looked at the business record the business directories in vancouver and discovered that it's david joseph kennedy who said in vancouver, have been born in vancouver, so no, no bootlegging of any sort. here and the local press. >> as you talk about the relationship between joe kennedy and his son john and to what extent john kennedy knew of his father's relationships multiple women and whether that influenced him to follow that same path. >> yes. [laughter] yes and i think there is no kennedys the audience. i think jack was much more predatory even than his father was. joe kennedy spent his -- joe kennedy had an arrangement muchly proves his father that i don't embarrass you and they do whatever i want. and he tried not to embarrass rose.
and that was that the canadian government was great. they supported as much booze as possible as long as the ship was in excess tests before they've subsisted in the united states. joseph kennedy limited from vancouver refuse to pay the excise tax. people say there's the proof. there's a smoking gun. i looked at the business record the business directories in vancouver and discovered that it's david joseph kennedy who said in vancouver, have been born in vancouver, so no, no bootlegging of any...
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they called a petticoat government so the wives were disrupting things. doing this month and months in gridlock almost every -- opposed peggy. all of them except one. more on that in the moment. eventually jackson buyers them basically because the little peg. peggy o'neal timberlake eden. will ultimatelultimatel y ultimately after two terms as president, jackson was so popular he could have won a third term. he was beloved by the people despite the scandal or perhaps because of the scandal. the masses loved ender jackson. jackson could run for another term but some of his opponents had spent years badmouthing little peg and before that badmouth his wife so it's personal for jackson. jackson reaches out to one cabinet member, one member of his inner circle. about the only member of the inner circle who did not say bad things about tech and always went to meetings and gives that person to run in his place. that is martin van buren. the little magician as they called him. otherwise rather an irrelevant politician. martin van buren continues his legacy and ma
they called a petticoat government so the wives were disrupting things. doing this month and months in gridlock almost every -- opposed peggy. all of them except one. more on that in the moment. eventually jackson buyers them basically because the little peg. peggy o'neal timberlake eden. will ultimatelultimatel y ultimately after two terms as president, jackson was so popular he could have won a third term. he was beloved by the people despite the scandal or perhaps because of the scandal. the...
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i looked at how he developed his governing strategy and electoral strategy and it really dominated. this is the back story to what happened with this presidential campaign. >> david corn, showdown is his most recent book and we are here at the national press club.
i looked at how he developed his governing strategy and electoral strategy and it really dominated. this is the back story to what happened with this presidential campaign. >> david corn, showdown is his most recent book and we are here at the national press club.